Administrative

Make a comment in every section.  Follow the structure provided and do not provide free-form comments.

What is the title of the work being reviewed?

What are the initials of the student whose work is being reviewed? 

 

What are your initials?

 

What date you received the work (use format MM/DD/YY)?

What is your email (in the format name@server.com)?

What is the email of the student that provided you with the work you have reviewed?

Presentation format

No Adjectives Do not use adjectives in your comments. Instead, describe why you liked a piece by giving details of what you liked. Full sentences Always write full sentences, with a subject, verb and object.  Always end with a period.

What worked well in the presentation?  Discuss at least one aspect of the project that was presented well (provide a complete sentence ending with a period.  Make sure the sentence has a subject, verb and an object.)

 

Was the voice recording easy to hear?

The volume of the recording changed unnecessarily 
The recording was not loud enough to easily understand the content?

Was the visual presentation appealing? 

The font used in Slides was too small and difficult to read
The numbers reported had more digits than the justified by the precision these estimates were obtained (Maximum of 2 digits after a period)
The narration was verbatim from the slides 
The use of color and graphics did not help the narration and and did not strengthen the central points being made? 

Was the length of the presentation appropriate? 

Too many slides used, typically because the presentation did not focus on the analysis and spent a great deal of time describing the field or making introductory comments. 
There were too many or too few slides.  5-7 slides were expected.
Narration of some slides exceeded 2 minutes

Was privacy of sources maintained?

References to name of organizations was not removed
Slide discussing whether the slide show can be posted was not present
Personal information was not stripped from the presentation
Expert was not identified by initials

Content

What worked well in the way the model was constructed?   Please use complete sentences with appropriate punctuations. 

 

Was the decision tree structure appropriate?

The decision, the consequences and the outcomes did not capture major issues involved in the decision. 
The assumptions made were not clear
At some nodes, events described were not mutually exclusive or exhaustive

Were the tree parameters correctly estimated? 

The probabilities were not conditioned on events preceding them
The outcome values (costs) were not established in a defensible way from reliable sources.
The probability of events for various nodes exceeded 1 and it should not have

Was the execrated value (cost) correct?

The folding back method or other methods of calculating expected cost were not correctly done
The sensitivity of conclusions to changes in single parameters were not reported or not done correctly
The conclusions were stated without a clear presentation of key assumptions

Suggestions for Improvements

Contrast the work done with your own effort to construct a decision tree.  Describe what you learned from the work you have reviewed that could help you in the future?  Please use complete sentences with appropriate punctuations. 

 

Suggest what the student might want to do to further improve the assignment.   Please use complete sentences with appropriate punctuations. 

 

Before you submit your work, check that all entries are correct sentences, with a subject, verb and object.  Always end with a period.  Email your work to both the student and the instructor.  You can copy this page into the email.

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